Critical Social Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Critical Social Policy is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The UK’s hostile environment: Deputising immigration control83
The Danish ‘ghetto initiatives’ and the changing nature of social citizenship, 2004–201828
A moral education? British Values, colour-blindness, and preventing terrorism22
Violent bureaucracy: A critical analysis of the British public employment service22
‘Punishing those who do the wrong thing’: Enforcing destitution and debt through the UK’s family migration rules18
Social protection and inequality in the global South: Politics, actors and institutions17
‘Ethical’ artificial intelligence in the welfare state: Discourse and discrepancy in Australian social services15
Safeguarding in Australia’s new disability markets: Frontline workers’ perspectives14
Is digitalisation of public health and social welfare services reinforcing social exclusion? The case of Russian-speaking older migrants in Finland12
The administration of harm: From unintended consequences to harm by design11
A critical systems evaluation of the introduction of a ‘discharge to assess’ service in Kent10
COVID-19 and the temporary transformation of the UK social security system10
News media representations of people receiving income support and the production of stigma power: An empirical analysis of reporting on two Australian welfare payments9
Personalisation policy in the lives of people with learning disabilities: a call to focus on how people build their lives relationally9
The banality of state violence: Institutional neglect in austere local authorities9
Navigating multiple pandemics: A critical analysis of the impact of COVID-19 policy responses on gender-based violence services9
Dynamics of the policy environment and trauma in relations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the settler-colonial state9
Regulating domestic and care work in Italy: Assessing the relative influence of the familistic model today9
Police–school partnerships and the war on black youth9
The politics of implementation: The role of traditional authorities in delivering social policies to poor people in Kenya8
The status of homelessness: Access to housing for asylum-seeking migrants as an instrument of migration control in Italy and Sweden8
‘Do they ever think about people like us?': The experiences of people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic7
State tactics of welfare benefit minimisation: The power of governing documents7
Targeting versus social protection in cash transfers in the Philippines: Reassessing a celebrated case of social protection6
Mapping mental health and the UK university sector: Networks, markets, data6
Sex workers’ peer support during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from a study of a Portuguese community-led response6
Empowered or patronized? The role of emotions in policies and professional discourses on birth care6
The precarious inclusion of homeless EU migrants in Norwegian public social welfare: Moral bordering and social workers’ dilemmas6
Guaranteed or conditional child maintenance? Examining the 2016 reform in Sweden5
Problem-solving for problem-solving: Data analytics to identify families for service intervention5
Disciplinary and pastoral power, food and poverty in late-modernity5
‘I’m not going anywhere near that': Expert stakeholder challenges in working with boys and young men regarding sex and sexual consent5
Intersectionality and structural gendered racism: Theoretical considerations for Black women, children, and families impacted by child protective services in the United States5
Client experience of street-level activation practices: Implementation of discourage policy in the Czech Republic4
Policy paradoxes and the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme: How welfare policies impact resettlement support4
What fresh hell? UK policies targeting homeless migrants for deportation after Brexit and Covid-194
Diversity vs the 2030 agenda. A deconstructive reading of the United Nations agenda for sustainable development4
Teaching social policy as if students matter: Decolonizing the curriculum and perpetuating epistemic injustice4
Food poverty and youth work – A community response4
Contractual controls and pragmatic professionalism: A qualitative study on contracting social services in China4
Shattered glass piling at the bottom: The ‘problem’ with gender equality policy for higher education3
The politics of job retention schemes in Britain: The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme3
A cure-all for energy poverty? Thinking critically about energy advice3
Sleepless in Taipei: The application of photovoice method to explore the major challenges perceived by homeless people facing multifaceted social exclusion3
Weaponising time in the war on welfare: Slow violence and deaths of disabled people within the UK's social security system3
United Nations Policy on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Problematizations and Performances3
Assessing sick-listed clients’ work ability: A moral mission?3
Toward a critical race analysis of the COVID-19 crisis in US carceral institutions3
Commodification and care: An exploration of workforces’ experiences of care in private and public childcare systems from a feminist political theory of care perspective2
Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality2
An analysis of minoritisation in domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales2
Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand2
Networks of power and counterpower in social work with children and families in England2
Inequality in the South African labour market: The political economy of the national minimum wage2
Which capital do you mobilise? How bureaucratic encounters shape jobseekers’ social and cultural capital in France and Germany2
COVID-19 vaccination requirements for Ireland's healthcare students2
Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: The development of adult social care policy in Wales2
COVID-19 and (mis)understanding public attitudes to social security: Re-setting debate2
Labour-saving technology and advanced marginality – A study of unemployed workers’ experiences of displacement in Finland2
Framing Community Sponsorship in the context of the UK’s hostile environment2
Intersex equality, diversity and inclusion and social policy: Silences, absences, and erasures in Ireland and the UK2
A critical overview of how English health and social care publications represent autistic adults’ intimate lives2
Credibility contests: The contributions of experiential knowledge to radicalisation expertise2
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